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The impossibility of Christian transhumanism

Transhumanism is the belief that we can become H+, which is to say, better than human, even eventually immortal here on earth. This is what happens when God is removed from the human equation: it engenders hopelessness and breeds nihilism. Transhumanism’s focus is solipsistic, its purposes eugenic. [1]